Improvement in brackets for shelving



.4V. MEIGS. Brackets for Shelving.

Patented May 27,1873.

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JOE V. MEIGS, OF LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN BRACKETS FOR SHELVING. l

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 139,408, dated May 27, 1873 application led April 1, 1873. y 4

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOE V. MEIGs, of Lowell, Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvements in Brackets for Shelving, of which the following is a specification The objects of my invention are so to construct brackets for the support of shelving that lthey may readily be applied to or removed from walls or other supports, to render the shelves adjustable, and to detach the movable part of the bracket from its xed portion without detaching the latter from the wall; to which ends my improvement consists in combining a ixed bracket provided with guides and a detent-rack with a movable bracket carrying a pawl, which takes into the rack to hold the bracket in any 4desired position.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l shows a view in perspective of my improved bracket; Fig. 2, a similar view, showing a portion of a shelf; and Fig. 3, a similar view of the adjustable portion of the bracket.

Guide-strips A are secured at suitable intervals to a wall or post by screws a, or other proper fastenin gs, and provided with a detentrack, b. Movable brackets C, which may be l of the form shown, or varied to suit the taste 4 of the architect, are provided at their upper ends with jaws c, which embrace guide-flan ges l The bracket it will be observed clasps this p strip at one point only, and plays freely upon it, so that the bracket may readily be moved up or down, and is held by the pawl in any desired position. bracket in any well-known way.

I claim- The combination of a bracket-strip having notches, guides, and a detent-rack, and a movable bracket having a pawl and claspingjaws, these members being constructed and operating in combination, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name.

JOE V. MEIGS. Witnesses:

JOE I. PEYToN, BALTIs DE LoNG.

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